S Nikola

At 25,600 gross tons, S Nikola is the 22,650th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 4.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,203rd by tonnage — larger than 35% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which S Nikola is the 2,493rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 680 bulk carriers flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 430 are larger by tonnage.

S Nikola was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 349th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 144 vessels to Uljanik, with a median tonnage of 25,600 GT, delivered between 1952 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 183.0 m overall, S Nikola is 7.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9102966 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.